The iNUX project at TU Dresden
The TUD is one of the largest technical universities in Germany and is one of the country's leading and most dynamic universities. It is one of eleven German "Universities of Excellence".
As a university with 18 faculties in five areas, TUD offers a wide variety of 121 degree programs and covers a broad spectrum of research in the research profile areas of Health Sciences, Biomedicine & Bioengineering, Information Technology & Microelectronics, Smart Materials and Structures, Energy, Mobility and Environment, and Culture and Societal Change. The TUD has around 32,400 students, 4,559 publicly funded employees - including around 600 professors - and around 3,682 externally funded employees. Further information is available at https://tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/profil
The iNUX project is coordinated by the Institute of Groundwater Management (IGW), which is part of the Department of Hydro Sciences at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences. The IGW at TU Dresden can look back on over 50 years of experience in teaching and research with a focus on groundwater management. The Institute's core team consists of 7 to 10 scientists (professors, senior researchers and doctoral students).
Research topics at IGW include advanced groundwater modelling (e.g. discrete continuum models for karst systems), analysis and interpretation of conceptual hydrogeological models, stable isotope analysis, characterization of hydrogeological systems with conceptual models and parameter estimation with laboratory and field methods, artificial groundwater recharge and aquifer storage and recovery.
Teaching and training at the IGW covers all aspects of groundwater management, with courses at Bachelor level including (a) Water Resources Management, (b) General Hydrogeology and Groundwater, (c) Well Construction and Groundwater Development, (d) Groundwater Exploration Techniques, (e) Dynamics of Groundwater Flow and Transport. At Master level (MSc), the IGW offers courses on (A) Groundwater management with numerical models, (B) Hydrogeological and hydrochemical methods, (C) Case studies on groundwater management, (D) Assessment of hydrological and hydrogeological processes by stable isotope analysis and more.